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Reading List

Some of the books that have been most influential to my art and thinking.

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Philosophy

Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, Jane Bennett, 2010
The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics, Jane Bennett, 2016
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures, Antonio Damasio, 2017

The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel De Certeau, 1984
The Logic of Sense, Gilles Deleuze, 1969
One: Being an Investigation Into the Unity of Reality and of Its Parts, Including the Singular Object which is Nothingness, Graham Priest, 2014
​Beyond the Limits of Thought, Graham Priest, 1995
Looking Away, Rei Terada, 2009
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience,  Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch 


Art

Six Drawing Lessons, William Kentridge, 2014
Boring Formless Nonsense, eldritch Priest, 2013


Novels/Plays

Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett, 1983
​Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett, 1953
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera, 1984 
Moby Dick, Herman Melville, 1851
Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, 1996


Being a Human

​Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Translated by Robert Bly, 1981
Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Things Worse), John Cage, 1973
Be Here Now, Ram Dass, 1971
​Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Donna Haraway, 2016
​How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, 2019
What I Talk About When I talk About Running, Haruki Murakami, 2009
Ordinary Affects, Kathleen Stewart, 2007
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 1980


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